PSYC 1032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Toothpaste, Avocado, Amygdala

• School: Boston College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1032
• Professor: Andrea Heberlein

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Dvs to study memory: # of items recalled, # of items recognized, recalled vs recognized. Ex: asking for people"s memory on a list of words and they get 1 word, but get the other word partially right. Emotion and the quantity of remember information: emotional stimuli (both + and -) are recalled more than neutral stimuli. More likely to be retained whether words, sentences, pictures. Will come back to this: recognition vs recall. Emotional stimuli show a clear recall advantage; less clear whether there is also a recognition advantage. Anatomy: refer to picture on slide, hippocampus looks like a seahorse. What does emotional memory look like in someone who doesn"t have an amygdala: subject sm, slide show with accompany narration. Father was able to restore the severed limbs most emotional content statement: participant not told this was a test of memory, memory spike for #7, makes sense because most emotional.